1. Production Scheduling
1. Events
1. Crooked River Fiber Fling in Peninsula, Oh August 4th-7th.
2. Ann Arbor Fiber Expo October 22 and 23rd at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds.
3. Yankee Peddler Festival in Canal Fulton, OH 3 weekends in September the weekend of the 10th, 17th, and 24th. I'll be at this event on September 18th. Be sure to drop by the Algonquin Spinning and Weaving Guild's booth. They'll be doing demonstrations and may have crafts for kids!
2. Production
3. QC Inspection.
4. What's in My Tea Pot?
5. Materials Sourcing
6. After 5
2. Production
1. The Embassy Scarf by Amy Polcyn found in the Knitscene summer 2011 issue. I’ll be knitting this out of Knitpicks Shadow laceweight in Foxtrot. I finally got this cast on this weekend! I'm about two repeats in and I can tell right off the bat this is going to be a long haul. The worsted weight yarn for the Clapotis really had me spoiled. Oh well back into the fray!
3. Shipping
1. Even with all the spinning this week I had time to finish something! The Ruffled Scarf by Pam MacKenzie is off the needles! If you recall from Last week one of the members of my kitting Group Cuyohoga Falls Knit and Hook is collecting purple scarves for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The DVAM committee chose purple as their color so all the scarves have to be knit or crocheted in easy care yarns in any shade of purple. I made mine in Loops and thread Impeccable (which I think is Micheal’s “House Brand”) in Amethyst. If you're interested in helping out this cause they set up a new website for it at www.comfortscarves.net.
4. What's in my Tea Pot?
1. Chocolate Chip Tea from Adagio Teas this tea was recommended by a listener many thanks to Knittinwolf for the recommendation!
2. The back of the box: Dark chocolate chips melt into the infusion of this Ceylon black tea to create the ultimate coupling of two taste bud tantalizers. Dense and soft chocolate flavor - seriously, for a second you think you're just eating a bag of cookies! Clean, slightly tangy finish brings you back to tea, and the balanced astringency compliments the dark chocolate nicely.
Ingredients: black tea, natural chocolate flavor, dark chocolate chips, cocoa nibs
3. I didn't believe that a tea could taste so much like chocolate. When I got my shipment from adagio I had to tear into this one first and was totally blown back by the chocolate smell coming out of the container. When I brewed this for the 1st time I had to do a double take to make sure I hadn't mad hot chocolate. This one is a keeper. Next order I make I will be stocking up on this. Another testament to the chocolate taste? My husband who I forgot hates dark chocolate just about gagged when he drank this. I wasn't expecting his reaction and I crowed at him “tastes just like Dark Chocolate right?” His reply “ You're right. I hate dark chocolate!” Whoops!
5. Materials Sourcing
1. Thomas Voeckler is still holding onto a razor thing lead in the race and I;m still spinning like a mad woman.
2. I'm averaging a bobbin spun and a bobbin plied a night still. I'm still chain plying all my singles and I'm happy to say that my chain ply is looking better and better. I'm no longer petrified of snapping a single and I'm able to get everything settle back down and get back on the road again after a break down. I have been oiling religiously the last few days. After talking about my oil issue last week you would have thought that I had learned my lesson. Oh but no!... I had a replay of last weeks plying issue and now I oil before every spinning session.
3. This is a rough average because I didn't process all the fiber into rolags before the tour started. Next year I doubt I'll be spinning something that needs so much prep. I'll also be spinning something with color! I am soooo sick of natural white.
4. Monday is a day of rest however I took last Monday and Tuesday as days of rest (residuals of AJ's horrible week.) So I will spinning tomorrow.
5. I can see the bottom of my bag of wool. I only have two more clumps of wool to card and then I'm done! I was pretty excited about this until I took a look at my two remaining clumps and realized that these may be the dirtiest of the bag.
6. This Friday is the last trip through the mountains in the race and is supposed to be challenge day. I'm planning on breaking out my drop spindle and spinning up my green and blue striped roving I think it;s only an ounce or two but should be challenging to do in one night on the drop spindle. We'll see how it shakes out.
7. If you're interested in seeing my progress most nights I post that days spinning results on the show notes page. I'm also spinning for Team I got Ewe Babe and Team rookie 2011. The ladies over at I got Ewe babe have been fantastically supportive this whole ride and are putting out some great yarns. There are also some gorgeous things coming out of the rookie side. Especially off of the drop spindles! I've never seen so many beautiful cops and cob web thing singles. Not to mention the spindles themselves. :) One of my faves looks like a model of an atom with balls on spokes.
6. QC Inspection
1. So once again QC has shifted positions because the knitting went well but the spinning has been giving me fits. A few episodes ago you may recall that I lost the end of the single when I had a break and had to take the almost full bobbin to my mom's house to use her lighted magnifier to find it. This has happend to me not once but twice this week! The first worked out OK as I found a spot pretty near the end made a break and ply back from there. I think I only lost about 12 inches of the single. The second time I was not so lucky. It was soon apparent that wasn't working. So I tried another spot and just tangled it more. So I finally found a spot towards the end to ply back from and that plied all the singles closest to the bobbin. So inside out. While I was dealing with this mess that I had brought upon myself … My Mom's Spidey senses were tingling and my phone rang. What a coincidence she was wondering how my spinning was going.... :) Right before I hung up after telling my tale of woe I said “Well, I have to go now... cause everything has gone to hell over here...”
7. After 5
1. My Horrible week from last week had some spillover into this week. The fuel pump for the car came in on Monday as scheduled but late in the day, So no car on Monday. Then Tuesday the mechanic called to say that he damaged the fuel line installing the fuel pump and that it would be another 80 bucks and an extra day. So we finally got the car back on Wednesday.
2. It's summer in Ohio and it's a hot one!. Not to mention the mosquitoes are out enforce the whole family is covered in Mosquito bites!
3. B has decided he wants to be batman when he grows up. He thinks that when he's as big as daddy he'll have the muscles to be batman. His biggest concern is how he'll be able to fly. Thinking fast I told him he;'s just have to get a jet pack. He asked “what's a Jet pack” after I explained it was a rocket that you wore on your back and it made you fly he was pretty blasé about it. “OK, I just have to get one of those then.”
4. B has also adjusted to having a spinning wheel in the house. He knows to give it wide berth but today he was a little annoyed because there was wool on the floor. He brought me what looked to be a second cut and said “Mommy you fluffy stuff is on the floor! How are you going to use it in your spinning machine if the fluffy stuff is on the floor!”
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